Using Your Critical Thinking Skills to Evaluate Research Designs and Statistical

question 108

Multiple Choice

Using your critical thinking skills to evaluate research designs and statistical methods becomes most important when you think about results that are ____.

• A) dramatic or unexpected
• B) meaningless or trivial
• C) positive and straightforward
• D) negative and ambiguous

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Definitions:

Descriptive Norm

Socially accepted behaviors that individuals are expected to conform to in a specific context, based on the observed actions of others.

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Pluralistic Ignorance

Pluralistic ignorance describes a situation where a majority of group members privately reject a norm, but assume incorrectly that most others accept it.

Autokinetic Effect

A phenomenon of visual perception in which a stationary, small point of light in a dark room appears to move because of involuntary eye movements.